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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Burning of a Steamer in the Bay of Biscay. Fearful, Sufferings of the Passengers and Crew

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 4

ON the afternoon of December 16 the Spanish mail steamer San Augustin, Captain Juan, from Manila for Liverpool, with a cargo of sugar and tobacco, was burned in…

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The Cunard Steamer Umbria

Intelligence · Wednesday 15 October 1884 · page 4
Also in The Bowral Free Press

A RECENT telegram reports that the Cunard Company's new steamer Umbria had made 24 miles in the hour on a trial trip, The S. M. Herald says, so far she has…

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